A Treatise of Human Nature

BOOK II PART I causation, it must still have a considerable in- fluence. Resemblance and contiguity are rela- tions not to be ne ...

BOOK II PART I blance must very much contribute to make us enter into the sentiments of others; and em- brace them with facility ...

BOOK II PART I contiguity, to make them communicate them- selves entirely. The relations of blood, being a species of causation, ...

BOOK II PART I are precisely alike. The manner and order of their appearance may be the same. The dif- ferent degrees of their f ...

BOOK II PART I sions; for which reason they arise more nat- urally from the imagination, and from every lively idea we form of t ...

BOOK II PART I tions of others are converted into the very im- pressions they represent, and that the passions arise in conformi ...

BOOK II PART I easily conceive how the relation of cause and effect alone, may serve to strengthen and in- liven an idea. In sym ...

BOOK II PART I the person possest of it. The elogiums either turn upon his power, or riches, or family, or virtue; all of which ...

BOOK II PART I ter. Such judgments are always attended with passion (Book I, Part III. Sect. 10.); and nothing tends more to dis ...

BOOK II PART I that though fame in general be agreeable, yet we receive a much greater satisfaction from the approbation of thos ...

BOOK II PART I We are not only better pleased with the ap- probation of a wise man than with that of a fool, but receive an addi ...

BOOK II PART I after them. Nothing is more usual than for men of good families, but narrow circumstances, to leave their friends ...

BOOK II PART I tion of objects to ourselves; since we are most uneasy under the contempt of persons, who are both related to us ...

BOOK II PART I diminution of sympathy by the separation of relations is worthy of our attention. Sup- pose I am placed in a poor ...

BOOK II PART I as when the contempt proceeds from persons who are at once both my neighbours and kin- dred. This phaenomenon is ...

BOOK II PART I his birth and quality, every thing below is dis- agreeable and even shameful; and it is with she greatest industr ...

BOOK II PART I ditional weight and authority. Plagiaries are delighted with praises, which they are con- scious they do not dese ...

BOOK II PART I SECTIONXII. OF THEPRIDE ANDHUMILITY OFANIMALS Thus in whatever light we consider this sub- ject, we may still obs ...

BOOK II PART I the rest, pride and humility, are derived solely from that origin. Such simple and natural prin- ciples, founded ...

BOOK II PART I humours and the composition of minute parts may justly be presumed so be somewhat differ- ent in men from what it ...